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Born 1645 • Hamburg • Germany
Died 1724 (aged 79) • Metz • France
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
American author
Avrom Sutzkever
Israeli writer
Haim Naḥman Bialik.
Haim Naḥman Bialik
Russian-Jewish writer
Chaim Grade
Yiddish author
Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian
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Adelbert von Chamisso
German-language lyricist
Micah Joseph Berdichevsky
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Frank Wedekind, 1918.
Frank Wedekind
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Peretz, I.L.
I.L. Peretz
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I.J. Singer
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Uri Zvi Greenberg
Israeli poet
Goldfaden, Avrom
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
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Martin Buber
Martin Buber
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Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
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Baeck, Leo
Leo Baeck
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